When did Football overtake Baseball in popularity?
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I prefer my cooked stats BBQ over roasted or fried.
As a stats teacher, this is one of the point I stress with my students all year long. There are often confounding variables they must be aware of and they also have to consider the best method for analyzing data (eg. mean, total, variance, ex).
As far as the average length of each game, there is not a whole lot to manipulate. From first pitch to last out is the official time. Average all of those official times in one year and that is the average of length of each game for the whole season. The average length of an MLB game is shorter than the average length of an NFL game.
There is also probably a larger standard deviation and range in baseball as well, since there is not clock. The shortest 9 inning MLB game in history was 51 minutes and the longest 9 inning game was 4h 45m. The longest extra inning game 8h 6m. I doubt you will find that range in the NFL. Most regulation games will be around 3 hours
Of course to a non fan a 3 hour baseball game may seem like 10 hours, but the same can be said for a non fan of any sport.
As do I. But when I go to Super Bowl parties most are not watching the game. When I watch a WS game with others all are watching the game. Of course there are fewer people at a WS gathering as most people do not have a WS party (the same is true for the NBA and NHL championship games as well)
I prefer my cooked stats BBQ over roasted or fried.
As a stats teacher, this is one of the point I stress with my students all year long. There are often confounding variables they must be aware of and they also have to consider the best method for analyzing data (eg. mean, total, variance, ex).
As far as the average length of each game, there is not a whole lot to manipulate. From first pitch to last out is the official time. Average all of those official times in one year and that is the average of length of each game for the whole season. The average length of an MLB game is shorter than the average length of an NFL game.
There is also probably a larger standard deviation and range in baseball as well, since there is not clock. The shortest 9 inning MLB game in history was 51 minutes and the longest 9 inning game was 4h 45m. The longest extra inning game 8h 6m. I doubt you will find that range in the NFL. Most regulation games will be around 3 hours
Of course to a non fan a 3 hour baseball game may seem like 10 hours, but the same can be said for a non fan of any sport.
What is the time frame over which those stats are being collected. Current year? Decade? Twenty years? Fifty years? That was my question
Found the stats:
Game Changers: Picking up the game's pace | MLB.com: News
I know its anecdotal, but every game I have tried to watch seems to drag on my more than that. I'd love to know the standard deviation for those statistics.
Game Changers: Picking up the game's pace | MLB.com: News
I know its anecdotal, but every game I have tried to watch seems to drag on my more than that. I'd love to know the standard deviation for those statistics.
The funny thing is, look at the chart in this link you provided that compares NY and Boston to the rest of the league.
This was the point I made earlier about how long Yanks and/or Sox games last compared to others.The reason why the games last so long is because they are more intense, usually very close, the batters work the pitchers by making them make a lot of pitches, and back and forth. Some of the most exciting games are the ones that last a long time (at least to a fan).
That is the case with everything when there is interest vs non interest. Anything I attend in which I have no interest also seems to drag on a long time, like some of the events I take my wife to that she really loves and I cannot stand (but I go anyway because she loves it)
Me too.
I don't care which sport is more popular in polls and ratings, I love MLB, NCAA FB, NBA, NCAA BB, PGA, and NFL in that order.
I also enjoy the fact that baseball is on every night during the season. I am starting to miss it already. Baseball, spring, and warmth are all wrapped together.
I also enjoy the fact that baseball is on every night during the season. I am starting to miss it already. Baseball, spring, and warmth are all wrapped together.
No, No, No --- Football, Fall and a nice cool brisk breeze with Old Man Winter waking up.
Baseball means humid 100 degree days around here.
Baseball means humid 100 degree days around here.
Had you bothered to read my previous posts, I said exactly what you said above. The statement I am refuting is "baseball is less popular than it once was". I am saying that baseball is more popular than it has ever been. More people watch baseball now (in the stands, on TV-and listen on the radio) than ever in the history of the sport. This statement is strictly insular.
(EDIT: from my previous post:
Football has become more popular with a higher rate of growth than baseball.)
